Primates safaris in uganda, rwanda and congo

Rwanda Safaris

Rwanda Safaris

Rwanda has three 3 national parks namely Parc Nationale des Volcanoes, Nyungwe and Akagera.
These parks are gazeetted protected areas and are managed and controlled by the Government of the Republic of Rwanda. These parks possess a wide variety of captivating diversity of flora and fauna.

Volcanoes National Park - The Oldest Park for Mountain Gorilla Trekking

Parc National Des Volcans is the definitive location to track the rare and Silverback-gorillacaptivating mountain gorilla (Gorilla gorilla beringei) in Africa. This area straddles the border with Congo and Uganda. There is a chain of no less than seven volcanoes, the highest, Karisimbi is more than 4500m. The bamboo and rainforest covered slopes of the Volcanoes are some of the last remaining habitats of the mountain gorillas, which was studied in great depth by George Schaller and, more recently, by Dian Fossey who spent the best part of her 13 years residing at a remote camp high up on the slopes of Bisoke with an aim of studying gorillas and habituate them to human contact. She would probably still be there now had she not been murdered in December 1985. Her years with gorillas can be tracedin the book Gorillas in the Mist.

Nyungwe Forest National Park

Nyungwe Forest National Park is a true rain forest and it receives 2,000 mm of rainfall annually. It is also one of the oldest forests in Africa, and that is one of the reason as to why it boasts such a high level of diversity. Nyungwe Forest National Park, along with other forests of the Albertine Rift, was unaffected by the drying up of the lowland areas during the last ice age, and therefore become a refuge for forest plants and animals. Read More

Akagera National Park

Akagera National Park is located in the east of Rwanda. The park covers over 2500 sq km of savannah west of the Kagera River that denotes the frontier with Tanzania. Le Parc National De l'Akagera has a variety of wildlife and is a habitat for over 500 different birds species. Herds of elephant and buffalo emerge from the woodland to drink at the lakes like Ihema, while lucky visitors might stumble across a leopard, a spotted hyena or even a stray lion. Read More

We tailor-make gorilla tour itineraries subject to your interest, time and budget. Below are some of the sample itineraries:

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